Background: Critically ill trauma patients are often too unstable for safe transfer to the operating room. Damage control laparotomy patients frequently require early reoperation and have a reported ...

Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery John Holcomb, M.D., FACS, published “Damage control laparotomy in trauma: a pilot randomized controlled trial,” in the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Open ...

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be ...

At one time, trauma surgeons considered an operation mandatory to treat gunshot wounds to the abdomen, but a study has found that in selected patients, avoiding an operation -- a practice known as ...

UAB was well represented at the 2021 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery, with three Division of Trauma and Acute Care ...

An otherwise healthy four-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department by his mother several hours after he had an unwitnessed fall at home. He had been playing with his friends, when they ...

One man had been shot through the chest, another wounded in the abdomen and both victims of South Africa's armed criminals were soon at Johannesburg Hospital. Lt-Cdr James Baden, a Royal Navy surgeon ...

The care of the unstable critically ill trauma patient who has undergone damage control procedures may commonly require repeat laparotomy. The triad of hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy in ...